Season 1
7 episodes
60 min. per episode
Where to watch
Pluto TV
Phil uncovers hidden histories in iconic homes, revealing how architecture shapes identity and communities across Britain.
Episodes
The series starts here with a multi million £ new home in the UK where the open plan design is shown not to be a modern design. Then we go back in history to homes dating back 13,000 years to 11,000 BC to 1600 AD. We see how the one room homes evolve into homes with many rooms.
Phil visits 14 houses from the year 1640 to 1800. We are shown various houses in workers' villages, from Shipwrights to Mill workers. Many are still lived in today. Plus Alms houses and homes for the poor.
The homes that Phil visits in this episode include: Usk Lighthouse, Regency townhouses in Brighton, Apartments converted from an old workhouse, Canal working boats, a Weymouth Harbour house, Ann Hathaway's cottage, a Cottier's cottage in Ireland, Lincoln Black Mill and Glasgow 1850 tenements.
We visit homes from 1850 to 1880, when a lot of change was taking place, including better sanitation. Some of the homes that were built quickly for the poor, are now sought after. In the Rhonda Valley in Wales, where coal mining drew in workers from all across the nation, many small homes were erected to house the influx.
We see several lovely homes from 1860 to 1920, from various areas around England.
Through this 8 part series Phil chooses 100 homes that typically represent the period that they were built in. These homes vary in size, materials used, style and location across Britain. There is an 8 th part not listed in the episode list, which is the "Contemporary" edition, which takes us up to date from the 1970s.